Kim, my dear friend and steadfast running companion, texted me before bed last Friday night to see if I wanted to run Hall Ranch the next morning. I replied “OK!” without even knowing what I was agreeing to! When I woke, I looked online to…

This morning, my father shared this quote with me from the Jewish and Welsh physician and poet, Dannie Abse: “…I felt that poetry shouldn’t be an escape from reality, but rather an immersion into reality…” I have been writing to immerse myself in my life since…

    Over the weekend, I visited the SF MOMA with my niece Isabel and nephew Simon to see The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde. As a long time lover of Matisse’s work, it was thrilling for me to experience this exhibition with…

High on the trail I run into a deer, in the exact same spot where last summer’s deer spoke to me, so I assume he’s returned to follow up. Letting me get within twenty feet, his eyes reveal that I have now reached a rung of closure. I keep ruminating about something my…

With this week’s poem post, I invite you to explore the terrain of releasing any limiting beliefs currently holding you back so that you may fully inflate and trust your own force now. While this poem is specifically about my experience of leaving a long…

terra firma sifting back through rack and ruin from decades of debris desire climbs with each new stretch of time mileage across ranges seasons states and seas now i am the woman i have been waiting for